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We're glad you're here. >> Richard: He is risen! Amen! Let's all stand together and give Him praise! We're gonna rejoice! ("Sing Wherever I Go" playing.) >> Richard: Sing it out, church! >> Richard: Has God been good to you, church? What an amazing God we serve! Faithful and true! ("God So Loved" playing.) >> Richard: Sing! ? >> Richard: Can you see His open arms? >> Richard: Yes, God so loved the world He gave His One and Only Son. His Name is Jesus. ("My Jesus" playing.) >> Richard: Amen, church! Let my Jesus change your life, amen? He rose again! He is alive! Let's all be seated as we prepare to take communion together. >> Thom: That was really fast, Richard. I just had to sprint up here. I got to sweat. Christ is risen! He's risen indeed, right? I'm Thom Besso. This is my wife Sandy. We have been members here for 32 years, something like that. We were good-looking or maybe not so good-looking then. We are excited to do our prayer over Resurrection Sunday. What a great day it is today, and we're so thankful for all of you. We're thankful that we are all in the family of Jesus, and someday we'll be there. Let's pray. Father, we're so grateful, and we just can't thank You enough for the death that You suffered for us. And Father, at times we just, we don't -- it just comes and goes for us to really reflect upon what You really did. It wasn't a simple death. It wasn't an easy death. It was a long, long, and painful death from the early part of people accusing You; to spitting You; to hitting You; to beating You; to abusing You; to at times all the way through that to so much abuse that it would have cost Your life; but still, You continued to maintain and die for us the ultimate death at the end so that we may have eternal life with You and all of us. At times, Father, we realize that, and we thank You for that; but we just don't in deep thought think about that. And Father, we want You to know today, Resurrection Sunday, we have thought through that and will think through that. And moving forward, we're excited to be in Your kingdom of heaven. We're excited to bring others to be in the kingdom of heaven and kingdom family with You. Thank You for Your goodness. In Your Son's Name, amen. >> Sandy: I will read from 1 Corinthians 15:21-23. (Reading.) ("O, Come to the Altar" playing.) >> Richard: Why don't we all stand together and worship together? >> Richard: Church, you may be seated. >> Shane: Amen. Happy Easter. Again, everyone, what a wonderful thing to sting that out. You know, as we pray over our offering today, I want you to know that you can text to give or give online. There's also offer, boxes in the back of the auditorium here. We give because He has given everything to us, okay? He's given us a new heart, a new life, forgiveness, and forever life because He makes all things new, amen, church? In all things are new. Let's pray today in the Name of our Living Lord. Would you pray with me? Our Father in heaven, we praise You and dedicate ourselves and these offerings to You, for You sent the Messiah to us and raised Him from the dead. Through Him, you have given us new life, God. We thank You and give these to the praise of Your glory. We pray this in the name of the Risen Lord, Jesus. Amen. >> Joel: Amen! Good morning, everyone. My name is Joel Smith, Children's Minister here. Just a reminder -- even though it's a family service, there's still children's programmer for kindergarten and below in the education wing. All right. This is an observable teaching for kids, but I have a trivia question for you adults, all right? Think about this: Who was the first person to praise God after the crucifixion? Think about that. Now, in order to get to Easter Sunday, we have to talk about sin. What is sin? Sin is anything we think, do, or say that is opposite of what God wants us to do. The interesting thing is that people have a number of ways that they deal with sin in the wrong fashion. One of them is to try to hide and get away. Hide and get away. You know, someone in Scripture that hid and tried to get away, you have Adam and Eve. They hid. You have Jonah, and he tried to get away. If someone was trying to get away from God today, I think they would take an airplane and try to get away. Can you get away from God? No, you can't. So we have the hide-and-get-away variety. We also have the, "Well, you know what? Sin is just too difficult to overcome. So I'm just going to float along with it." This is a boat. Notice there's no sail; there's no motor; it's just a plain old boat; and it just kind of like going down the river. Well, whatever will be will be. I think of someone like Balaam who wanted the benefit of sin and just kind of hung out for a while and ended up costing him his life later on. Well, then we have another way that people deal with sin, and that is that they stuff it and they hide it. They try to just push it down, pretend it's not there, just on their own personal level I can stop this. "I can make this go away." What happens when you stuff something? (Imitating explosion.) It explodes. That doesn't work, either. So that brings us to our Bible verse, and you want to talk about someone covered in sin? The centurion responsible for putting Jesus to death, as soon as Jesus died, he was the first person to praise God. What is fascinating, the word is a continual praise, not just an acknowledgment but a continual praise. My verse today comes to us from Luke 23:47: "The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous Man. This was the Son of God." The interesting thing is what do we do when we have sin? We can try to run and hide; we can try to just float along; we can try to suppress it; but we need to take it to the cross. When you take it to the cross, THAT is where you get forgiveness of sin. You know from Isaiah it says, "Though your sins were as scarlet, they will be washed white as snow." So friends, what are you going to do with sin? Thank you very much. (Applause.) >> They stripped him and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and put a reed in His right hand. And kneeling before Him, they mocked Him, saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" And let Him away to crucify Him. And when they came to a place called Golgotha, they put the charge against Him which read: "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews." From the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the land. Jesus cried out: "My God, my God! Why have You forsaken me?" About the ninth hour, Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his His spirit. And behold! (Thunder.) The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. (Earthquake sounds.) His body was placed in a tomb out of the rock. (Wind blowing.) At dawn on Sunday, the women went to see the tomb. An angel of the Lord had descended from heaven and rolled back the stone. The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He has risen." >> Shane: Amen. What a thing for us to celebrate today. And speak of death -- yes, yes, you can celebrate that. That's okay. (Applause.) Absolutely! Speaking of death, burial, and resurrection, last Sunday we had six people baptized into Christ to raise up in newness of life with Him. (Applause.) We had two others on Wednesday night. I will recognize a few here -- we had several in the earlier service. First, Analisa Salas. (Applause.) Yan Cantwell right here. And over here I have Riley Braun -- there, Riley; yes. (Applause.) Thank you, guys, for letting us be a part of that new life. What a great week it's been. To our guests, thank you for being here. We're so glad you're here. Everyone, you can fill out a Connection Card on the QR code in front of you. Guests, especially, we love you to go to "New Here? Start Here." It's right through the lobby. We love to visit with you and answer questions and get to know you better to help you get connected. Come see us there. If you're watching online, please say hi in the chat room. We'd love to meet you if we haven't before. Everybody, let's stand and greet one another to have a time of fellowship greeting now. ("Glorious Day playing.") >> Richard: Yes, yes, He is risen! Thank you, church, for your worship today! You may be seated! >> Ronnie: Thank you so much, Richard and team. And good morning, everyone! Happy Easter. So glad to see you right here in the room for our third service today. We had an excellent 7:00 a.m. outdoor service, excellent 9:00 a.m. service; and I'm so thankful to see you. And to those of you who are worshiping with us online, welcome as well. Now, a couple of things here at the outset. I have a couple requests for you. One is I really believe that the Lord has something to say to you through the Word of God, the ministry of the Holy Spirit. So what I will ask you to do -- because sometimes we can be really, really good at self-protection. I'm going to ask you to breathe a little prayer where you give God permission to touch your heart today. Just sort of ask yourself and say to yourself, "Okay, Lord, I am open to You; I am open to Your Word. I am open to Your Spirit," okay? I will ask you to do that. And then secondly, I'm gonna ask you for us to do our traditional Easter declaration. When you think about it, I mean, millions upon millions of believers are doing this declaration ALL over the globe today. You know how it goes. I'm going to say, "Christ is risen." Then you will shout back with great gusto and energy "He is risen indeed!" Ready? Here we go. Christ is risen! >> He is risen indeed! >> Ronnie: All right. So here we are on Easter Sunday. We celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, THE most vital event ever, securing a vital status for you and me. Now, early on that first Easter, Jesus was really dead. He was certifiably dead in the tomb. Had a CAT scan been performed, there would have been no brain waves registered. His body temperature was probably like the temperature of the borrowed tomb, probably about 60 degrees. There He, certifiably dead, publicly executed and crucified on Friday. What moved first? I don't know. Did He open an eye, twitch a finger? But an event happened in that tomb that would forever change the course of human history. When you think about it, really, even though Jesus prophesied and taught He would be betrayed; He would be executed; and on the third day He would rise again; for some reason, this didn't just really sink into the information bank of His followers because on that first Easter Sunday, they really were not expecting a recur recollection. There was no small group of believers huddled around the tomb singing "Kumbaya" or people with a Resurrection countdown -- ten, nine, eight! Actually, the believers were going to anoint a dead body and to finish the embalming process, if you will. I will read the Resurrection narrative from the Gospel of Mark, the briefest of the Resurrection narratives, only eight verses. Don't let its brevity fool you. Mark 16:1. When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they might anoint Jesus' body. That was practical. They were mourners and thought, "We didn't get to finish the process on Friday. His body will have a stench, and we need to do something about that." "Well, very early on the first day of the week just after sunrise, they were on the way to the tomb and asked each other a practical question, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance to the tomb?" That stone weighs hundreds of pounds and some speculated as much as 4,000 pounds. When they looked up, they saw the stone, which was VERY large, has been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. Now, you know who the young man is. He's an angel. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You're looking for Jesus, the Nazarene who was crucified." Now one of the great statement in the Easter narratives: "He has risen! He is not here." Let's say that together. Ready? He has risen! He is not here! Now, He was here. He's not here now. He was dead; He's not dead now. He's not here. He's not here anymore. He's risen. He is risen indeed. Sometimes we talk about the empty tomb? Maybe it's more accurate to describe it as the emptied tomb. Verse 7 -- the angel says, "Tell His disciples and Peter" -- a wonderful statement that is often overlooked because you remember the last time you encountered Peter in this whole narrative. What's he doing? Denying Jesus three times with cursing. And I'm sure had the angel just said, "Tell the disciples Jesus will meet them in Galilee," Peter would have thought, "Yeah, everybody but me. You would be welcome; I won't be welcome. I'll be on the outside looking in. I'm in the penalty box; I deserve to be in the penalty box; I should stay in the penalty box." The angel said -- here's the message from Jesus. "You and Peter, especially you, particularly you -- specifically you -- Jesus said meet Me in Galilee. He's got a fresh assignment for you, a new mission for you." Some of you in this room today, you have a point of freedom coming because right now you have a point of bondage or breakage or failure, and it is time for you to reframe it and view that failure through the lens of God's wonderful grace and mercy. And just like God, just like Jesus will give Peter permission to forgive himself and embrace a new assignment, our great God gives you permission to get out the penalty box, get again into the flow of the Spirit. You are invited to do kingdom work and kingdom business. If the Lord could only use perfect people to do His work, NOTHING would ever get done; but He can use redeemed, renewed people. He says, "Ladies, you tell the disciples and specifically Peter -- he's no longer in the penalty box. God gives him permission to forgive himself and get back in this game." Hey, you want to be used again as a dad; as a father; as a husband; a mom; a wife; as a disciple? Then view your failures through the lens of grace and embrace a new mission, a new beginning, a new assignment. So verse 8. "Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid." Jesus is alive. Why are these women afraid? The short answer: They were not expecting a resurrection that morning. Don't mishear me. They fully believed in a resurrection to come. They fully believed, as all good Jews did, in new heaven and new earth that at the last day there will be a resurrection. They believed that. They just can't quite fathom that there's the resurrection of a single Person in the middle of history. They believed in a resurrection for all at the end of history, but the Resurrection of One right here in the middle of history? What God has done is He's taken the future and brought it into now. You know why He's done it? To say here's Jesus, listen to Him. Here's Jesus; follow Him. Jesus is indeed the Messiah, the Son of God, the Savior of the world. You see, that's why the message of Jesus Christ is not just good advice. It's an announcement that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He's worthy to follow, and He has salvation for all who will put their trust in Him. All right, I've got three quick questions for you. Here's the first one: do you know that Jesus' resurrection is a reasonable belief? It's a reasonable belief. It has reasons substantiate its foundation. You see, our Christian faith is not based on speculation or philosophy; it's based on historical fact surrounded by evidence. For example, those early Jewish leaders, they desperately wanted to discredit this message of the Resurrection. That's easy to do, right? Just produce a body. That's it. Just produce the body. Take the body of Jesus, put it on a cart, parade it through town. "Hey, everybody, come take a look at this body and its decomposition. Keep your stance. There's a smell here." Just produce the body. They wanted to; they couldn't because Jesus rose from the dead; 40 days later ascended into heaven. And there were eyewitnesses and not just a few. The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15, "For what we received I passed on to you as of first importance: That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scripture, and He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve." Listen to this. "After that, His appeared to more than 500 of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some are asleep. Then He appeared to James, then all the apostles, and last of all He appeared to me." Over 500 eyewitnesses. Let's say you've got just 15 minutes per eyewitness. That's it, 15 minutes per eyewitness. You're going to interview those eyewitnesses. You know how long that would take? If you started tonight, you go all night tonight; all day Monday; all Monday night; all day Tuesday; all Tuesday night; all Wednesday; all Wednesday night; Thursday; Thursday night; Friday; Friday night. Five and a half days nonstop. As the Apostle Paul would say one time giving his testimony, "This didn't happen in a corner." And not only were there eyewitnesses, there were eyewitnesses willing to die for their testimony. The basic law of self-preservation means "I'm not willing to die for a hoax or a scam." The reason why those eyewitnesses held to their story is that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a hoax. It is not a scam. It's true. Are you familiar with Bayes' Theorem? It's an 18th century probability theory used, for example, in World War II to crack the German enigma code. In our contemporary world, it influences how spam filters work; how self-driving cars behave; how search engines function. Well, there is a strong Christian professor by the name of Dr. Richard Swinburne at Oxford University, and he was speaking at Yale University a few year ago at a high-profile gathering of philosophy professors. The New York Times reported on it in an article called "So God's Really in the Details." Here's what Swinburne -- they're quoting him. He say this in a speech. "For someone dead for 36 hours to come back to life again, according to the laws of nature, that's extremely improbable. But if there is a God of the traditional kind, then natural laws only operate because He makes them operate." In other words, if there's a God of the Bible, He establishes natural laws, and He can suspend them or interrupt them. Science describes the universe, but science cannot dictate the universe. He goes on and says, "He used Bayes' Theorem to assign things to values like the probability of God being real or to the validity of the eyewitnesses to Jesus' Resurrection. Then he plugged the numbers into a probability formula. He added everything up, and the result was a 97% probability that the Resurrection really happened." I can't put the Resurrection in a test tube for you, but here's what I can say: your faith has evidence and has reasons. It didn't happen in a corner. Secondly, do you know Jesus' Resurrection is a declaration of victory? Of victory? Would you rather win or lose? Youth adder win, and on Christ you're on a winning team. Listen, the victory of Easter is a victory over the evil one, over Satan, over your adversary. There are people in our world today who they're not believers; they're not Bible readers; they're not Christians; but they would tell you there is something broken in our world. There's something sinister in our world. There is something beyond what just humans do. There is an evil force out there, and maybe they can't put terminology to it because they're not a Bible reader, but they would say, "There is something dark out there at work in our world. There is evil." But my friends, century after century the Resurrected Jesus Christ stands over the rubble of brokenness, and He says, "There's coming a day I will set it completely right, and" and He will declare this one word: "Enough." And when He says "Enough," that will be enough. Somebody says, "Why doesn't He do it now set everything right today?" The Bible said He's giving you and me and others who don't know him yet time to come to the gospel. Hebrews 2 says this: "Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so they by his death he might break the power of him that holds the power of death -- the devil -- and free those who all lives were held in death." We no longer fear death; we may fear that process; but we no longer have to fear death because we belong to Jesus Christ; and there's promise after promise where Jesus says, "I live; you'll live also." "What happened to Me raised to life again, never to die again, that's gonna happen to you as well." 1 Corinthians 15: "Christ indeed has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits -- farming analogy. What happened to Jesus? We will follow in due time. "The firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep for since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man." You know, there have been a lot of religious leaders who made promises about the afterlife. To whom will you listen? Let me make a suggestion: I suggest you listen to the One who's come back from the grave. I suggest you give credibility and authority to the One who died and rose again. Praise God. We in Christ, we can stare death in the face and know that our Savior is waiting for us. It's win-win. You stay here, for us to live is Christ. We have people to love and things to do, joys to embrace. When our day comes, to live as Christ and to die actually is gain. Here's something the Bible says, and this interesting to me. It says that the very power that raised Jesus from the grave is actually practically available to you in ordinary ways on a daily basis. In other words, Resurrection power, the very power that God used in raising Jesus, that very power is here, helping you on a daily basis if you welcome it and invite it. What that means is for some of you here today, you need to come back big time. God has a comeback for you if you will embrace His grace and His power. You thought God was dead in your life. You thought there was an addiction you could never overcome and teal with, and you can't on your own. You're gonna need some resources, God's help. You thought your marriage could never be in a good place again. God specializes in taking those things that are dead or dying and then maybe even have a stench of death to them; and sometimes where faith is embraced, you can be surprised. The Lord Jesus has a way of bringing a divine comeback when He's invited into the equation. In other words, there's almost nothing -- in fact, let me say there is NOTHING you can get into that our Great God cannot get you out of. Do you know that the Resurrection of Jesus puts you on a winning team; and to live to Christ in His glory and power and grace and love and mercy and even when you die, to die is gain. Very quickly, this third question: do you know what Jesus' Resurrection says about your value to God? You do know that Jesus loves and cares for you, right? You do know the Lord loves and cares for you, and sometimes we say that. We say it generically, but He loves for you and cares for you very specifically. He want to show that care for you very, very, very specifically. He loves you; he cares for you. I have in my pocket a penny. Several years ago, there was a Christian leader, a Bible teacher. He was walking along one day in the parking lot, and he saw a penny. You notice no one from the crowd is rushing up here to grab this penny. Well, that gentleman, he said, it's almost more trouble than it's worth to bend over and pick up that penny. But he did it and thought, I think God may be trying to teach me something here. He started paying attention to pennies over the next few weeks, and this was one was wide open in the parking lot. One day he was in the room and there was like a bench. Underneath the bench, he sees a penny. So he thought, well, this will be a little embarrassing, but he got down on all fours and reached under there to get that penny out to add to his collection. One day -- he's in the house and go in the utility room. He says to his wife, "Anna, sweetheart, what's this penny here on top of the washing machine?" "I don't know. I guess it was in your pants, my pants, something. I don't know. There it is." He was doing some work in his front yard and there was a small street out there. There was something in the yard. Sure enough, it's a penny. There were a couple of cars coming by and had to wait. The penny was run over a few times. He said it was amazing when he started paying attention how many pennies were around. He said he was on a flight coming through the Atlanta, Georgia, airport. "I go into the men's room." Oh, yeah, you know where this is going. He said, "I went into the men's room. It was filthy and hadn't been cleaned in a while. Sure enough, on the floor, was a penny. So I got a couple of paper towels, reached down that penny, washed it off, put it in my pocket to take home and add to my collection." He said, "I felt like I was being taught something about the heart of God. Each one, EVERY life, EVERY soul -- you have never looked in the eyes of a person who does not matter to God. EVERY life, EVERY soul is valuable; but not just that, that we're in different stages and stations. You know, there's some of us who just are wide open to the love of God and welcoming it. There are some that are sort of hidden under a bench. They may look pretty good on the outside, but they're in some sort of shadow. They're hiding something. God is willing to kneel down and reach for them." "And there are some that have been through the wringer, through the washing machine a few time. Their circumstances have beaten them up, and maybe they have been run over a bit. Just like I had to wait to run out into that street to pick up that one penny, sometimes God in His mercy and patience, He waits for us. Just like I did not want to reach on that bathroom floor, there is no place that God is not willing to go to meet you and no person" -- what was it Corrie Ten Boom said in her statement? There is no pit so deep where God's love is not deeper still? Do you know how precious you are to the Lord? His cross is for you. Generically for us, specifically for you. His Resurrection is very specifically for you. He comes to you today in compassion and tenderness and hope and victory. His love is willing to reach into the most problematic situation, find you there, and help you there. Let me say that again -- help you there. Here's what I want you to do today. I want you -- sometimes people will say "Seeing is believing." Not in the Christian economy of things. In the Christian economy of things, BELIEVING seeing. Here's what I mean: you got to believe what the Bible says. You believe what it says about how God made and formed you and loves you and cares for you and wants to show Himself for you and wants a relationship with you. He wants to go before you and go behind you. He wants to hover over you. He is the Ever-Present, Good, Heavenly Father. Here's what you have to do: you have to get out of a fetal position. You have to get out of motionless Christianity. You walk by faith. You open. You want God to be with you. You want to be a friend to the Lord. You invite Him in, and you believe that He really cares; that He's active and in the Power of the Holy Spirit as your partner. If you keep your eyes open, if you will believe that, you're gonna see God show up in some surprising, wonderful ways. That tomb is empty. The Holy Spirit is waiting to fill your heart and life to the overflow, bursting at the seams. Do you know how loved you are? Respond to it. Do you know that your faith has reasons? Do you know that we stand and we serve from a posture of victory? Praise God. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Brother Don, would you leave us in prayer? Everyone, would you bow? >> Don: Loving Father, this morning we bow to the majesty and glory of Your Name. We bow to the greatness with which You have loved us, a love that we may never understand and yet a love that we can never live without. Father, we rejoice today at the new awareness that Jesus, our Savior, is a Living; Breathing; Omniscient; All-powerful King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We thank You that You want us to come to You, and You have made that known because You came to us. When we were lost and without hope and without direction, You came to us; and not only did You come, You laid down in awe to pick us up. The fact Jesus rose from the dead and lives again gives us hope we also can be raised again to a new life, a new hope, a new purpose. Father, we pray that today You will resurrect us again. Give us a new zeal for You. Give us a new awareness of how much You care, how much You love, and how much You want us to serve You and live with You forever. Father, our hearts today also are grieved not only for our own sin but for the pain and suffering that our world today is enduring. So much pain, so much hurt throughout our world today. We pray for the Holy Spirit of peace to intervene. We pray for those who are suffering in Ukraine and all other areas of Your world. Help us to know that regardless of come what may, You are still in control. It's Your world, not ours. May Your will be done in every way and in every place. We rejoice today for the newness of life that You remind us of today, and we ask now that as You go home with us that every step we take this week will be guide by Your Holy Spirit. Everything we think and do will be guided by our awareness of Your love for us; a love that surpasses knowledge and surpasses our understanding. We love You, Father. We love You, Lord Jesus. We love You, Holy Spirit, and invite You to renew us again. Stay with us and never, ever let us go. It's our prayer through the Name of the One who died and gave all, even Jesus our Lord. Amen. >> Shane: Amen. Thank you, brother. What a wonderful Resurrection morning we have had today. What a great day to praise the Lord, and I have a few things to tell you about before we wrap up today. One is our annual baby dedication is Sunday. It's coming up in a couple of weeks. You must register by next Sunday, okay? Next Sunday, April 24, register by then to be involved in the baby dedication. The registration link and info is on website. Second, the First Conversations Intensive, a three-week Bible study about Jesus, is a great study meeting over Zoom from noon to 1:00 the next three Tuesdays beginning this week. You can sign up on our website for that as well. I want to tell you about the Foster Care Spotlight, an elective in our gym at the 9:45 a.m. Bible class hour, right before this worship service. That will be May 1 in the gym. That will provide great information about foster care services in Fort Bend County, highlight local organizations and tons that you can use to bless and support those who are fostering families, okay? And then next Sunday, April 24, is our New Member Info Session. This is for anyone who would like to be a member or thinking about it or you have questions about our church or want to know more. We want to help you get connected. Ronnie and I would love to see you at that session in the "New Here? Start Here" room next Sunday at 9:45. You can register for that online as well. You may have noticed photo booths in the lobby and in the rotunda and in our courtyard and front porch. You can do some family photos or photos for Easter. Feel free to do that. We'll have some Easter chocolates for those who are young or young at heart who would like a little as you go out. We'll give you some chocolates. More importantly, happy Easter, everyone. What a great day to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus! Let's not leave here like we came because He is risen, and that changes everything. Amen? >> Amen. >> Shane: Let's stand and sing one more song before we go. >> Richard: Amen! He is risen indeed! ("Glorious Day" playing.) >> Richard: Happy Easter, church! Thank you for your worship today! You may -- you are dismissed!